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...last week the first consecration of a U. S. bishop ever to take place in St. Peter's in Rome. In full pontificals the Cardinal sat solemnly on a faldstool before the altar. Before him, bowing low in the cope, biretta and white stole of a priest, was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, 43, onetime grocer's boy and sandlot baseball player in Whitman, Mass., named last month by the Holy See to be Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (TIME, Aug. 15). In three great tribunes sat the entire Vatican diplomatic corps and many another official including Boston...
...Monsignor Spellman's side stood his two assistant consecrators, Monsignor Francesco Borgongini Duca, Apostolic Nuncio to Italy, and Monsignor Giuseppe Pizzardo, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. A choir sang. As Monsignor Spell man approached, it hushed; the assistant consecrators bowed slightly. Petitioning that Monsignor Spellman be made a bishop, Monsignor Borgongini Duca gave to Cardinal Pacelli the apostolic mandate. Then the Cardinal began to catechize the priest who had once been an assistant to his secretariat. Catechized, Monsignor Spellman was assisted up the steps to the altar, where he kissed the episcopal ring...
...Receive the Holy Ghost." The Cardinal imposed his hands, anointed the Bishop-elect's head and hands, thrice prayed "Whatsoever thou shalt bless, may it be blessed . . ." and Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman was a bishop. He took his crosier (pastoral staff), episcopal ring, book of Gospels, mitre and gloves, and proceeded through St. Peter's, blessing the congregation as he went. Returning to the altar. Bishop Spellman genuflected thrice, wished his consecrator well with a thrice- intoned "Ad multos annos" (for many years...
Soon after his consecration, Bishop Spellman was received privately by Pope Pius XI, whose words he had often translated into English, notably in the first international papal broadcast last year, and in the encyclical on "Catholic Action," which Monsignor Spellman carried to Paris, translating as he went. Last week the Pope affectionately recalled that on the same day, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he himself had taken possession of the Archbishopric of Milan. Then Pius XI received Bishop Spellman's relatives, gave the men gold medals, the women rosaries. Bishop Spellman got a large...
...your issue of Aug. 15. Understanding that you will pride yourself on the accuracy of your statements I will say that the fact is that the Kearns family has been prominent in Chicago for 84 years and that one of its members was the late Monsignor Kearns, a learned, cultivated and saintly priest...